Squash Irish Open 2010 Madeline Pery wins again

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Ireland's Madeline Perry won her 4th Canon Kirk Irish Open with an excellent display against against Vanessa Atkinson of the Netherlands. Perry won by three games to love. The first game could have gone either way. Indeed, Atkinson had a game ball at 11 - 10. Perry was making plenty of uncharacteristic errors in the first game while Atkinson played the short game very well. The turning point of the match came in the 2nd game when Perry, who was leading 8 - 6 at the time, won a 60 shot rally. Atkinson tired visibly after this point and she seemed deflated while Perry, who is one of the hardest hitters in the game upped her pace and intensity to take the 2nd game 11- 8 and she raced through the 3rd game 11 - 6. It captures another great success for the Banbridge woman coming just two weeks after her victory in the Australian Open.

The Men's title was won by the Malaysian Azlan Iskander who beat Spain's Borja Golan in an epic 5 game match. I

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